Spar Österreichische Warenhandels-AG
| SPAR Austria Group
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1954 |
| Seat |
Salzburg , Austria
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| management |
Gerhard Drexel , CEO Fritz Poppmeier, Expansion & Retail |
| Number of employees | 82,700 |
| sales | 15.05 billion EUR (including abroad) |
| Branch | Grocery retail |
| Website | www.spar.at |
| Status: 2018 | |
The Spar Österreichische Warenhandels-AG is in addition to the Rewe Group belonging to Rewe International AG , the largest Austrian trading company . The company operates under the brand name SPAR Austria Group and is based in the Taxham district of Salzburg . It is also the largest single organization of the international Spar chain , the concept of which was developed in the Netherlands from the 1930s .
Key figures
The SPAR Austria Group is represented with a total of 1607 (as of December 31, 2013) locations throughout Austria. There are currently (January 2013) 1,161 SPAR Supermarkets, 52 SPAR Gourmet Markets, 177 EUROSPAR Markets, 60 INTERSPAR Hypermarkets, seven Maxim Markets, 62 restaurants and 67 SPAR-express petrol station shops. Over 80 of these locations were modernized, expanded or completely relaunched in 2012. Around half of the SPAR supermarkets, some EUROSPAR stores and the SPAR-express petrol station shops are run by independent retailers who purchase their goods from SPAR wholesalers.
With over 39,000 employees, the group is Austria's largest private employer (2013) and the largest apprentice trainer (2,500 apprenticeships in 13 professions).
In the food retail sector, where 1,607 Austrian locations are operated (end of 2013), SPAR Austria has a market share of 29.8% based on total sales in food retail in 2012 (as of: beginning of 2013).
Ownership structure
The SPAR Austria Group is the only food retail company operating throughout Austria that is wholly Austrian-owned. 93% of the shares are owned by the founding families Reisch, Drexel and Poppmeier, whose trading companies merged in 1970 to form today's SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-AG. 7% are owned by merchants who joined after 1970.
history
The positive development of Spar in the Netherlands , Belgium , Germany and Denmark prompted the Kufstein-based wholesaler Hans F. Reisch to set up an organization based on this model in Austria.
In the autumn of 1954, Hans F. Reisch founded the trade association SPAR Tirol / Pinzgau , which emerged from his company Andreas Hofer KG and its clientele. Around 100 independent merchants came together at this time. SPAR wholesalers in other Austrian federal states soon followed .
This created the basis for a national retail chain . Spar was already active throughout Austria from 1959.
SPAR Austria rationalized the grocery trade by using roller containers when transporting the goods, introducing an order record or installing a computer-controlled invoicing system .
But the focus was not only on easing the work of the merchants, there were also changes on the customer side: SPAR Austria was one of the first to focus on self-service and gear its stores accordingly. The introduction of a fresh service for fruit and vegetables and the use of effective marketing methods and concepts heralded the first golden age of the Austrian SPAR at the end of the 1960s .
The founding of SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-AG through the merger of all ten wholesalers that existed at the time was another milestone in history in 1970 . With this step, the Spar Austria headquarters also moved from Vienna to Salzburg-Taxham. In 1970 INTERSPAR GmbH was also founded as a subsidiary of SPAR Austria. Since then she has been operating the INTERSPAR hypermarkets, restaurants and web shops in Austria.
ASPIAG (Austria SPAR International AG) was founded in 1990 and is now based in Widnau , Switzerland . With their participation and professional guidance, their own SPAR country organizations were set up in Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Croatia.
At the end of 2016, Rewe International announced that Spar in Croatia had bought Billa's entire network of 62 branches with 1,900 employees.
Business types in grocery stores
Stores operated by SPAR Austria are divided into store types that differ in size and range.
- SPAR express petrol station shops
- SPAR Express petrol station shops offer groceries at supermarket prices seven days a week on a sales area of 80 m 2 . The shops can be found in Shell, BP and Turmöl petrol stations.
- SPAR supermarkets
- SPAR stores and SPAR supermarkets, mainly set up as classic local suppliers, have a sales area of up to 1,000 m 2 . You have a large fresh food area with delicatessen service counters.
- SPAR gourmet markets
- The roughly 50 SPAR gourmet markets are mainly located in the greater Vienna area and offer a wider range of foods with a focus on delicatessen. They emerged from branches of Julius Meinl AG , which were taken over by SPAR in 2000.
- EUROSPAR stores
- EUROSPAR stores with a broader product range, especially in the non-food sector, have sizes of around 1,000 m 2 to 2,000 m 2 .
- INTERSPAR hypermarkets
- The INTERSPAR hypermarkets operated by the 100% subsidiary of the same name offer up to 50,000 items (almost half of them food) on around 2,500 m 2 to 5,000 m 2 . A self-service restaurant (INTERSPAR restaurant) is also connected to most of the 60 INTERSPAR locations.
- Max markets
- The Maxi-market trade-Gesellschaft mbH , a subsidiary of INTERSPAR based in Linz, operates seven stores with an area of 3,000 m 2 bis 8,000m 2 in the provinces of Salzburg and Upper Austria.
Websites
In addition to the corporate pages of the sales channels, INTERSPAR sells wine, electronic devices and toys through its online shops.
Locations
The main headquarters of the SPAR group is located in Salzburg-Taxham . All company-relevant decisions are made from this location. The branches in the Austrian federal states are managed and supplied via the warehouses in the six branches in Dornbirn , Wörgl , Marchtrenk , St. Pölten , Graz and Maria Saal . The regionally coordinated marketing, the delivery of the markets and the operation of the Tann meat plant are also the responsibility of the respective branch.
There is a central warehouse in Wels , which supplies the branches primarily with slow-moving products (long shelf life, no special offers, ...).
Domestic holdings and subsidiaries
The SPAR Austria Group has holdings in:
- SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels AG (100%; retail; gross sales 2013: 5.80 billion euros)
- Austria SPAR International AG (ASPIAG) (100%; retail; gross sales 2013: EUR 4.96 billion)
- Hervis GmbH (100%; sporting goods trade; gross sales 2013: 0.42 billion euros)
- SES Spar European Shopping Centers GmbH (100%; property management company, 2013: 2.56 billion euros)
- Interspar GmbH (100%)
- Maximarkt Handelsges.mbH (100%)
- Spar Finanz AG (50%)
- dm drugstores Austria (32%)
- Metro Austria (27%)
Shopping centers
Spar Österreichische Warenhandels-AG, with its subsidiary, SPAR European Shopping Centers , is one of the largest operators and developers of shopping centers in Austria.
Foreign participations
In neighboring countries, Spar is represented by Austria SPAR International AG (Aspiag), which is based in Widnau , Switzerland :
- Italy
- Slovenia
- Hungary
- Czech Republic
- Croatia
The 1,111 foreign locations (end of 2013) employ 34,366 people.
Production plants
- Regio coffee
- In November 1991, the most modern coffee roasting plant in Europe went into operation in Marchtrenk . Around 20 types of coffee are made from 3,600 tons of green coffee per year, which are sold under the REGIO brand and the SPAR own brands S-BUDGET, SPAR Natur * pur and SPAR PREMIUM. In addition, REGIO fills 90 million tea bags every year (as of January 2013) for SPAR Austria and neighboring countries.
- TANN meat and sausage factory
- SPAR pursues an Austria-wide production concept for meat and sausage products under the TANN brand. The main plant is located in Föderlach in Carinthia (municipality of Wernberg ). In addition, a modern meat factory is attached to each of the six SPAR branches in Austria, where an additional range of TANN sausages tailored to the region is produced. These supply the fresh meat departments in SPAR, SPAR Gourmet, EUROSPAR and INTERSPAR stores. TANN is the largest processor of meat and sausage products in Austria. TANN is billed as an independent company within the INTERSPAR stores. In total, the butchers at the six TANN plants process 60,000 tons of fresh meat from Austria every year, which has been awarded the AMA seal of approval .
- Schloss Fels vineyard
- After the wine scandal ( 1985 ) the SPAR trade-AG in 1986 , the winery the Brothers grill Lower Austrian rock at Wagram acquired together with the associated vineyards in the amount of 34 hectare. The cellars, which were last rebuilt and renovated in 2010, can store around 5 million liters of wine. With 90 hectares of production area, the Schloss Fels winery is one of the three largest wineries in Austria. Today, grapes from around 100 hectares of vineyards are also purchased. In 2012, 13 million bottles of wine were delivered.
- Excellent spirits under the brands "Felser" and "Desirée" as well as liqueurs under the brand "Cremona" are also produced and bottled in Fels am Wagram.
- INTERSPAR fresh bakers
- The SPAR subsidiary INTERSPAR operates eight bakeries in Austria that produce different types of bread and pastries in different regions. Last year, the 270 bakers and confectioners produced 22 million rolls and 25 tons of biscuits and biscuits, among other things.
SPAR own brands
The SPAR Austria Group sells around 30 own and exclusive brands. These include:
- TANN (fresh meat and sausage products)
- REGIO (coffee)
- SPAR quality brand (various foods)
- SPAR PREMIUM (premium food)
- SPAR Natur * pure (organic food)
- SPAR Vital (healthy food developed with nutrition experts)
- SPAR Veggie (vegetarian and vegan foods)
- SPAR free from (food for people with special dietary needs)
- S-BUDGET (groceries, as cheap as discounters)
- DESPAR (Italian specialties)
- SPAR fine cuisine (ready meals)
- SPAR enjoy (convenience products, sandwiches)
- SPAR as before (old vegetables and fruits, traditional products)
- Weingut Schloss Fels (wine and spirits)
- Molly, Scotty and Fiffy (pet food)
- BEAUTY KISS (body care products)
- SUN KISS (sun protection)
- Lovely (hygiene paper)
- Pamina (ladies hygiene)
- Pascarel (underwear and clothing)
- Ruby (household textiles)
- Pretty Baby (baby clothing)
- Splendid (cleaning products and household cleaners)
- SIMPEX (household items and electrical appliances)
- Barbecue (grill and accessories)
- New York (travel supplies)
- spar office (office supplies)
Awards
- SPAR Austria is a company in the shopping center and grocery retail sector and has received the Austrian state award .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Facts & Figures 2018
- ↑ a b c d SPAR Austria Group: Annual Report 2013 ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 32.2 kB) accessed on February 13, 2015
- ↑ Spar: The most important fighter against Ceta , Antonia Löffler, February 23, 2017, on the DiePresse.com website . Retrieved April 17, 2017.
- ^ History. at: Unternehmen.spar.at , as of April 8, 2013.
- ↑ Spar Austria takes over all Billa branches in Croatia on ORF from December 16, 2016, accessed on December 16, 2016.
- ↑ INTERSPAR-Weinwelt at: www.weinwelt.at , as of April 8, 2013.
- ^ Regional SPAR centers. at: Unternehmen.spar.at , as of October 11, 2009.
- ↑ State coat of arms SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels AG ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 3, 2014
